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Buhari: Why we will drag president to court over meeting with APC, PDP leaders – IPAC The National Publicity Secretary of the Inter-Party Council, IPAC, Yakubu Shendam, on Sunday threatened legal action against President Muhammadu Buhari for meeting with only the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC. Buhari had last week met with leadership of both parties at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. But Shendam, who is the National Chairman of New Generation Party of Nigeria, NGP, wondered why the President had failed to invite other political parties, numbering over 40, to the meeting. Speaking yesterday in Abuja, the IPAC Chairman noted that the secreate meeting was a desperate attempt to derail democracy. According to Shendam, “The secret meeting between the two political parties is a clear indication that APC and PDP are birds of the same feather. “We are consulting to seek redress in court over the u...

Nigerian Engineer Makes Drones That Smell Bombs A Nigerian engineer and neuroscientist, Oshiorenoya Agabi, is blazing a trail in America’s Silicon Valley by developing drones that are capable of smelling bombs far away. Agabi is the founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup, Koniku, a wetware company which is the world’s first neurocomputation company. Koniku is a privately held, venture backed company using biological neurons to interface with the real world. They build systems that use real biological neurons for sensing, control and computation. The company is currently focused on two related technologies: the odour positioning system and the odour surveillance system. These technologies will replicate sensitivity and specificity levels only seen in biological systems, according to a report by scitechafrica.com. This innovation is based on Agabi’s Ph.D. research in Imperial College London, that allows drug developers to replicate human organ...

Nnamdi Kanu is funded by the DSS – Ralph Uwazuruike The leader of the Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has revealed those funding the Nnamdi Kanu led Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Uwazuruike, who formed Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, now led by Comrade Uchenna Madu, alleged that the Department of State Service, DSS, was funding Kanu and his followers. He also accused the DSS of arranging Nnamdi Kanu’s arrest just to bring him (Uwazuruike) down and make him unpopular. “If Nigeria could not intimidate me, who is Kanu? I just gave him time to fool himself. It’s just like a father fighting his son”, Uwazuruike to Sun. “The idea of the republic of Biafra was to enlighten the people. When I came out of prison, I felt I needed a radio to enlighten the people and the Federal Government. “Before Radio Biafra, I had a radio in America called Voice of Biafra International, in 2001. Th...

Benue might share similarities in Culture, but we are not Igbos – Jerry Agada Professor Jerry Agada, one time Minister of State for Education, and former National President of Association of Nigerian Authors speaks with John Charles on the purported parts of Benue being part of the eastern states. This interview was culled from PUNCH Your community shares border with communities in Igboland can you briefly tell us about your ancestry? I am from a place called Orokam in Ogbadibo LGA of Benue State. Orokam, as you know, is a border town. Obolafo is the next eastern town. In fact, there are some areas in Orokam that our people and some Igbo people almost sweep our compound together because of the nearness at the boundary. That is my ancestral home. And you know, Orokam came to be as a result of migration in the very old days when Kwararafa kingdom came to settle in that place. But there are some communities in Ogbadibo, your local government, Ado, Okp...

President orders police to kill ‘idiots’ who resist arrest The Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, on Monday ordered police officers to kill any “idiot” who violently resist arrest. Duterte gave the order when hundreds of people turned the funeral of a slain 17-year-old boy Kian Loyd delos Santos into a protest against his deadly war on drugs. Santos was said to have been killed by anti-drugs officers on August 16, a situation that sparked public outrage. Duterte, who was mid-way into his speech at the Hero’s Cemetery on the outskirts of Manila, ordered Jovie Espenido, the police chief of a town. He said, “Your duty requires you to overcome the resistance of the person you are arresting… (if) he resists, and it is a violent one… you are free to kill the idiots, that is my order to you,” The President contradicted himself again when he said, “murder and homicide and unlawful killings” were not allowed and that police had to uphold the rule of ...

Imo killings: Father of 10-year-old shot in Owerri market protest demands justice The father of the 10-year-old boy who was shot dead at Owerri market during a protest has asked for justice. Three casualties were recorded in the demolition of the popular Eke-Ukwu market in Owerri, Imo state on Saturday after Governor Rochas Okoracha ordered the demolition of the market despite a subsisting court order stopping the demolition. The bereaved father, narrating the incident said his son came to help him pack his goods out of the shop when the soldiers shot him dead. His words: “I told my little son to come and assist me remove my goods from the shop before the people demolishing the market got to the place. “When we were crossing the road, we all raised our hands up but these soldiers just drove by and opened fire and shot my son in the head. “The bullet hit him in the eye and came out from the back of his head and he fell and died. “I wa...